OSCAR 7 is Alive

AB3A writes :"Originally launched November 15, 1974, OSCAR 7 was long thought to be dead from natural causes (radiation, battery failure, space junk, etc.). However, AMSAT reports that it has recently been heard on the air! This probably isn't a record, but it does rank right up there with spacecraft such as Pioneer. I wonder how many other satellites out there have been given up for dead but are still functional at some reduced capacity?"

Comments

Oh, shit

[Snafoo]

Here we go again.

Someone prepare a bald-headed chick and a transporter beam... 'ocar' is back.

Re:Anyone got the Keps?

[robslimo]

Arg.

Should have checked the front page at www.amsat.org

Here are the keps for AO-7 if anyone else cares...

AO-07
1 07530U 74089B 02167.52996888 -.00000029 00000-0 10000-3 0 935
2 07530 101.7955 212.2077 0012102 193.4285 166.6467 12.53558681262239

Re:the real thing?

[Red_Winestain]

As Sherlock Holmes was fond of saying, "once you have ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be correct."

But as Dirk Gently rejoins, "I reject that entirely...The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."